Greeks and barbarians

Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often as candidates for conquest and enslavement.

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Page 263Were the Romans really Greeks in fancy dress, or were they an inscrutable and
menacing Other? In the meantime Rome proceeded to establish her domination
over the Greek world. Five centuries elapsed between the virtual end of Greek ...

Page 264Even in the comfortable world of the Flavian emperors, of Hadrian, or the
Antonines, with its relative prosperity, its common culture extending from the
Clyde to the Euphrates, its flourishing trade, its lively Greek intellectual life - the
age which ...

Page 282information from all over the Greek world.17 It was certainly no accident that such
institutions arose in places which did not have at their disposal the necessary
potential for large-scale power structures/8 An aristocratic culture was ...